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Ellis · Last edited by Ellis on Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:23 pm; edited 1 time in total

Well, I am.

The photos I took yesterday on the "Anything interesting..." took me the best part of two hours to upload and today I cannot get any connection from Photobucket to my computer.

I know that BT is upgrading my area to fibre optic cable and can this disrupt normal service?

Yesterday, the connection kept on breaking down and I had to relog in to Pb several times to upload.

Any ideas everybody?
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Kenham · Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 209 Location: Kent

I can't do it anyway, too much hassle for me.

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

I often find that the address links can't be copied but you can right click on your photo and get the address that way.

Peter
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ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4254 Location: South Cheshire

Never been a problem, just click on the photobucket img link and paste into the post ; 2 clicks and it's done Smile

Peter_L · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:38 pm Post subject:

The Pop Up adverts are a pain, and I am sure it is slower than it used to be, but maybe that is intended, so as to encourage folk to move to the paid version. I have thought about changing, but it would remove the photos I have posted here and elsewhere.

Do you optimize a copy of the photos to reduce their digital size ?

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

Peter_L · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:04 pm Post subject:

Ellis · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:28 pm Post subject:

Thank you for your replies gentlemen.

Embarassed

What I am having trouble doing is uploading from my pictures TO Photobucket.

Press the "Upload" and all I get is the spinning symbol in the top left of my screen and it reloads the same page again.

What's going wrong, please?
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1964 Jaguar Mark 2 3.4 litre
1962 Land Rover Series 2a 88"
2002 BMW M3 E46 Cabriolet

MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2722 Location: South Cheshire

What browser are you using? I've found in the past that it's way less hassle to use Chrome to upload to Photobucket, I used to have all sorts of trouble with IE. The pop-up adverts are a pain, I agree, but I'm not paying for photo hosting.

I do make a point of making the photos smaller before I upload - I'm on a relatively low monthly bandwidth limit, so it doesn't make sense to upload a 5Mb JPG and have PB or anyone else resize it - I also hear that sometimes the resizing algorithms on some of these hosting sites can drop quality quite significantly.

mikeC · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:33 pm Post subject:

I'm on Chrome, and also having trouble uploading to Photobucket. The last time it took three attempts over two days to get images uploaded and then they ended up in the wrong folder, and I am presently on my fourth attempt in three days to load some more ... and I always re-size the images before attempting an upload.

badhuis · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1474 Location: Netherlands

Why not use www.flickr.com?
I have been using it for some years now and no problem iploading single files or a batch of files. And easy to to get the picture address, already formatted in the usual forum code (starting with [img] and ending with [/img].
I always do not bother resizing before uploading.
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BigJohn · Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire

I find Photobucket is either impossible to upload to, or it flies. There appears to be no middle ground, if it is struggling I abandon the uploading and try later.

Ellis · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:06 pm Post subject:

Thank you gentlemen.

I'm glad I'm not the only one having difficulties.
Ironically tonight has not been too bad but still slow.

My nephew installed ad blocker to my pc recently so perhaps that contributes to the problem.
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1964 Jaguar Mark 2 3.4 litre
1962 Land Rover Series 2a 88"
2002 BMW M3 E46 Cabriolet